Everyone seems to be trying to reinvent the scrolling these days. Meanwhile the craigslist's designers and UX engineers (if there are any) are having hell of a fun.

what craiglist has to do anything with this ?

It is articles like this where Instapaper text comes in very handy. Clear out all the flash, and just show the content.

I think they might have been attempting to simulate a magazine-like experience, where the pictures that required more scrolling than normal were supposed to be like turning the page to a full page image. I feel like I've seen this attempted before but with flashing down arrows to tell you that you need to keep scrolling. Based on the reactions here, I don't think it was successful, but I do appreciate efforts to enhance the reading experience.

> but I do appreciate efforts to enhance the reading experience.

I don't. I just want the words. Ideally I want the words to be in a nice font and nice contrast and well laid out. In a perfect world there would be some diagrams and illustrations to support the text.

> I don't. I just want the words.

Me too. But I don't know what else to do other than reading longer articles through Pocket/Instapaper and sending everyone I know [0] as a reminder every once in a while.

[0] - http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Magazine experience sounds right. You know, the flat design people who railed against skeuomorphism missed the point. Sure, faux-wood textures on your website are a waste of time. But forcing a digital medium to behave like a piece of paper is as skeuomorphic as you can get.

Using page-down instead of scrolling help. Still horriblue UX/design, though.

This was completely unreadble on iOS6.

It's amusing to think that some believe Apple is deliberately crippling browsers on older devices. It's sites like Wired that are doing the work for them.

At least they all had a "skip intro" that would get rid of it all

I couldn't read it on my MacBook Air 2013 + Chrome. Decided to just come here and read the comments instead.